About Kyle

I’m a UX designer based in Minnesota with experience in designing a wide range of digital products, including web software, e-commerce sites, mobile applications, and brochure websites. I pride myself on being helpful, easy to work with, fast, and effective.

When I’m not working, I’m spending time with my wife, daughter, and dog Kirby. I love getting outside and playing golf. I’ve travelled to play 16 of the top 100 public courses and built my own golf simulator in my garage. I enjoy cooking (grilling or firing up my pizza oven), trying new restaurants, and traveling.

What I do best

Fast Designer

With years of experience, I understand where to apply effective design patterns to get something drafted quickly and then where to best focus my effort to innovate or improve.

Self-driven

While I enjoy teamwork, I have the determination to move projects forward without constant oversight. This includes managing my own projects and growing my side project websites to over one million page views per month.

Effective communicator

I prioritize clarity and effectiveness in my interactions, whether leading project teams, working with customers, or designing interfaces. I’m able to quickly dissect a problem, simplify it, and work out a solution.

Easy to work with

My business and coding experience make it easy for me to relate to and collaborate with product managers and developers to get the best results while meeting business goals.

Technical abilities

Skills

UX design
UI design
Product strategy
Prototyping
Wireframing
User testing
Accessibility
SEO
Front-end development

Tools

Figma
Sketch
Photoshop
Illustrator
WordPress
AI
Google Analytics

Code

HTML
CSS
SCSS
Javascript
JQuery
PHP

How I Got Here

Emergent Software

Led successful projects to build web-based software. Designed UX for complex applications including a Stripe-based donation system, a survey analytics tool, and a video wall builder.

emergent website
dog name site

Lucky Lab Design

Designed and coded, My Dog's Name and Find Cat Names, two sites for finding pet names that averaged 1.6M pageviews per month.

Workfront

Improved user experience and added new features to Workfront, a cloud-based solution that helps large brands like Cisco Systems, Red Bull, Sony, Nike, and ESPN manage their work.

Workfront
Retina Displays Book

Website Optimization for Retina Displays

Published a book called Website Optimization for Retina Displays. It explains the basics of creating web graphics that look great on high-density (Retina) screens such as the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.

Freelance / TC Websites

Founded TC Websites LLC to build small business websites. My work included launching sites for new businesses & helping larger companies like Popeye's Chicken & Old El Paso improve their existing sites.

Recipes
Chief Website

Milestone

Milestone manufactures TV & projector mounts and projector screens (Chief, Sanus & Da-Lite brands). I conducted user research & designed branded sites for them and their partners including Best Buy, Dell, and Sony.

Early Career

I worked as a User Experience Design Intern for Techies.com, an early job search startup. Then I designed websites for the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts, which required user-testing focused on web accessibility.

techies